Vienna → Dubai
Goes through a warning area
4,600 km · 5h 25min
Route assessed 10h ago · Sources re-checked 4h ago
The Vienna to Dubai route via Turkey and Iraq crosses warning areas in both regions. Before booking this routing, check with your airline about current conditions in Iraqi and Turkish airspace, and verify whether alternative southern routes through the Arabian Peninsula might avoid these zones.
Part of this route goes through a flight warning area
Monitor updates on Iraqi airspace and Turkish airspace conditions before departure. Confirm your airline's routing plan and ask whether they are rerouting around the warning areas.
Vienna → Dubai
This route goes through a flight warning area. It cannot score above 60 — other good factors do not cancel out the fact that it crosses a warning area.
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This northern routing faces airspace advisories in Iraq and Turkey that make it less favorable than southern alternatives via the Persian Gulf. Routes further south typically encounter fewer active disruption zones on the Vienna–Dubai corridor.
This route's European leg tracks through Eastern Europe near the Ukraine conflict zone before turning south toward the Gulf.
Ukraine Conflict Zone
CZIB-2022-01 ↗ · checked 4h ago
This route crosses Iraqi airspace, which airlines are officially told to avoid. Some airlines still cross it at high altitude; others route around it.
Iraqi Airspace Advisory
CZIB-2026-05 ↗ · checked 4h ago
This route passes through the airspace over the United Arab Emirates, which airlines are officially told to avoid at every altitude until at least 31 August 2026. The airspace is open and flights are running normally — the warning is about the advice, not about delays.
United Arab Emirates Airspace Advisory
CZIB-2026-07 ↗ · checked 4h ago
Why this level
European regulators told airlines on 14 July 2026 to stay out of this airspace at every altitude. The warning runs until 31 August 2026 unless it is renewed.
EASA CZIB-2026-07R1 · in force until August 31, 2026
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